| Description |
xiii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Children and youth in America |
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Children and youth in America.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-243) and index. |
| Contents |
Pt I. Race and colonization. Indian children in early Mexico / Dorothy Tanck de Estrada -- Colonizing childhood : religion, gender, and Indian children in southern New England, 1600-1720 / R. Todd Romero -- Imperial ideas, colonial realities : enslaved children in Jamaica, 1775-1834 / Audra Abee Diptee -- Pt II. Family and society. Sibling relations in early American childhoods : a cross-cultural analysis / C. Dallett Hemphill -- "I shall beat you, so that the devil shall laugh at it": children, violence, and the courts in New Amsterdam / Mariah Adin -- "Improved" and "very promising children" : growing up rich in eighteenth-century South Carolina / Darcy Fryer -- Pt III. Cares and Tribulations. "Decrepit in their early youth" : English children in Holland and Plymouth plantation / John J. Navin -- Idiocy and the construction of competence in colonial Massachusetts / Parnel Wickham -- "My constant attention on my sick child" : the fragility of family life in the world of Elizabeth Drinker / Helena M. Wall -- Pt IV. Becoming Americans. From German catholic girls to colonial American women : girlhood in the French gulf south and the British mid-Atlantic colonies / Lauren Ann Kattner -- "Let both sexes be carefully instructed" : educating youth in colonial Philadelphia / Keith Pacholl -- From saucy boys to sons of liberty : politicizing youth in pre-revolutionary Boston / John L. Bell. |
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United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775.
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United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
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Children -- United States -- History -- 16th century.
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Children -- United States -- History -- 17th century.
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Children -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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America -- Social life and customs.
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America -- Social conditions.
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Children -- America -- History -- 18th century.
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| Added Author |
Marten, James Alan.
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| ISBN |
0814757162 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0814757154 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780814757154 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780814757161 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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